The Hereford plate. Relief from Copernicus GLO-30; rivers and lakes from USGS NHD; watersheds from the USGS Watershed Boundary Dataset; roads and city limits from Census TIGER 2024.
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3° on Nov. 17, 2014, the coldest reading for this week of the year since 1905. Next is 5° in 1940.
Hereford’s center stands about 3,820 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 3,760 ft to 3,890 ft, a difference of 130 ft: gently rolling country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Chalk Hill, about 4,020 ft, 14 miles west.
The section below crosses 2 rock units mapped at the surface.
Heights every 0.1 mile from the Copernicus GLO-90 surface model; vertical exaggeration about 64×. The colored band under the surface is the rock the state geologic map shows at the surface, not a picture of what lies beneath.
Sand. Age: Pleistocene, less than 2.6 million years old. About 21 mi of the line.
Sand. Age: Late Miocene to Pliocene, 2.6 to 12 million years old. About 3 mi of the line.
From the USGS State Geologic Map Compilation (Horton and others, 2017), the states’ geologic maps joined at a common scale.
Heights from Copernicus GLO-90 (a surface model: it includes buildings and tree canopy); summits from USGS GNIS; rivers from USGS NHDPlus HR; rock from the USGS State Geologic Map Compilation.
A raindrop that lands in Hereford reaches the Gulf of America by way of Tierra Blanca Creek, the Prairie Dog Town Fork Red, the Red River, the Atchafalaya and the Lower Atchafalaya: about 1,400 river miles.
1,040 miles of the trip are on the Red River.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Hereford; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Hereford has a cold semi-arid climate. Summer afternoons average 92° in July; winter nights fall to about 22° in January. A normal year brings about 14 inches of snow; with the rain, that comes to about 19 inches of water.
On November 14 Hereford normally reaches 61° and falls to 32°. The record high is 83°, in 1973; the record low 7°, in 1940. The most rain on this date, 0.55 in, fell in 2004.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1905 at Hereford, here. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
